The policeman seriously injured after receiving a projectile in the head in Rive-de-Gier (Loire) came out of a coma this Saturday.
His vital prognosis is no longer engaged, announced the deputy public prosecutor of Saint-Etienne, André Merle.
During an intervention for night noise, on the night of Thursday to Friday, the 51-year-old brigadier-chef, father of two children, received a projectile in the head, some sources mentioning a bottle.
He lost consciousness and collapsed to the ground, in a street in this town in the agglomeration of Saint-Etienne.
The official was initially evacuated to the nearby hospital of Saint-Chamond, then transported to the CHU of Saint-Etienne, where it was found that he was suffering "from a head wound at the temple. "Requiring" an emergency intervention because of a hematoma, "explained the departmental director of public safety Cédric Esson on Friday.
No arrests yet in this case
The victim was part of a crew of three police officers from the Saint-Chamond police station who oversaw the application of the curfew. He went to meet a group of fifteen young men, reported for "night noise" in the Grand Pont district, according to Vincent Bony, the PCF mayor of Rive-de-Gier. "The individuals initially refused to leave, invoking Eid (note: the Muslim holiday which marks the end of Ramadan), then throwing projectiles in the direction of the police," explained André Merle.
The individuals armed themselves with everything they had "next to them, namely bottles, concrete blocks", pushing the police to use tear gas, before wiping "a rain of projectiles", according to the DDSP. Two of the police officers managed to take refuge inside their vehicle, before finding their colleague unconscious at the foot of it. No one has yet been arrested within the framework of the investigation opened for willful injuries on persons holding public authority. A call for witnesses was launched by the Saint-Etienne prosecutor's office.
The assault drew numerous reactions of support for the injured official and condemnation from local and national politicians.
This new aggression against the police comes after the murder of Eric Masson, brigadier killed on May 5 in Avignon during a check on a drug trafficking point and the death of Stéphanie Monfeture, administrative agent stabbed at the police station. from Rambouillet (Yvelines).
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